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Hormizd III of Persia

Hormizd III, king of Persia, son of Yazdegerd I, succeeded his father in 457.

He had continually to fight with his brothers and with the Ephthalites[?] in Bactria, and was killed by Peroz in 459.

This entry was originally from an 1911 Encyclopedia.

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